Building on survivalist and horror themes, players in 7 Days to Die can scavenge the abandoned cities of the buildable and destructible voxel world for supplies or explore the wilderness to gather raw materials to build their own tools, weapons, traps, fortifications and shelters.

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What the developers have to say:

“7 Days to Die thrusts players into the aftermath of the fall of civilization with only their wits and bare hands to survive. In this continually evolving title currently in alpha stage development, players must explore the open world alone or with friends to build tools, weapons and shelter against the dangers of the reanimated dead, infected wildlife and the world itself.”

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January 8

Happy New Year Survivalists,
We hope all of you had a wonderful game filled holiday break and that your loot chests we’re full from a great Christmas loot run. So now that we’re back we’re going to share our Alpha 11 plan, announce the Christmas screenshot winners and share a little more good news. Here goes!

December 29, 2014

Happy New Year Survivalists,
We fixed a problem where some mesh instances were set improperly to static resulting in framerate loss and lag. From our testing this fix has improved framerate for everyone.

This patch is save game, network and backward compatible with A10.4 b9

Reviews

“7 Days to Die achieves exactly what it sets out to be. It’s a fun and intense post-apocalyptic sandbox with all the right mix of base-defense, scavenging, and exploration.”
8.3 – Shoost

“7 Days to Die is like Minecraft with Gravity. Building defenses with friends and huddling in the corner hoping no zombies get through can be great fun. But what keeps me coming back to the game is the TNT.”
Kotaku

“7 Days to Die looks genuinely impressive, and I can’t see this not making a huge impact when it arrives.”
Rock, Paper, Shotgun

About This Game

Building on survivalist and horror themes, players in 7 Days to Die can scavenge the abandoned cities of the buildable and destructible voxel world for supplies or explore the wilderness to gather raw materials to build their own tools, weapons, traps, fortifications and shelters. In coming updates these features will be expanded upon with even more depth and a wider variety of choices to survive the increasing dangers of the world. Play alone or with friends, run your own server or join others.

7 Days to Die development was launched following a successful Kickstarter campaign in August 2013, demonstrating the initial prototype. Joining us in early access now will help support the cause and ensure continued expansion of the development team, their efforts and the planning and addition of even more features and depth eagerly awaited by fans.

Many of our fans have commented in these early stages that they feel we are building the survival\zombie game they have always wanted. Our goal is to live up to this as much as we can and build a customizable, moddable game that allows users to fine tune their survival and zombie experience to create the experience players and their friends want.

Random World Generation - Play Navezgane or roll the dice and dive back into the game with friends in a randomized world with huge cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains, valleys, roads and wilderness locations.

Create and Destroy - The world terrain, structures and items can be destroyed or scrapped for resources. Re-purpose collected materials to build custom structures and fortification by hand, placing building pieces into the world in real time.

Terrain Enhancement - The terrain is now both smooth and natural but can still be destroyed and mined.

Upgradable Fort Building - Player built structures are assembled from framework which can be upgraded supporting wood, cobblestone and concrete upgrade paths. Hammer away just like real building and use Land Claim blocks to protect your fort in PvP.

Structural Integrity - Buildings and terrain formations which are too unstable can fall apart if proper supports are not built. Some building materials are stronger than others and pieces which break off and fall can be dangerous or deadly if they fall on you or enemies.

Item Crafting & Degradation - With a continually growing list of over 250 recipes, gather resources such as plant fibers, wood and metal to create weapons and tools such as hand made crossbows, knives and hammers. As your tools wear out over time, use your crafting skills to repair them.

Plants and Animals - Locate seeds to plant and grow vegetables, and head out into the wilderness to hunt animals once the cabinets in abandoned buildings are already plundered.

Stealth System - Sneak past zombies who can see, hear and smell you and smelly items in your inventory and throw rocks to distract them.

Buff/Debuff System – Enjoy or deal with a multitude of buffs or debuffs like a caffeine buzz or a broken leg in our rapidly growing Buff/Debuff System with over a dozen boosts or ailments.

Cooperative Mode - Tired of zombie apocalypses that are more about fighting humans than zombies? Team up with your friends to work with other survivors rather than against them, using group efforts to build settlements and safety.

Character Customization - Full Character creation system with face/body morphing, custom skin, eye, hair color, facial hair and a multitude of visible clothing and armor.

(Features in various stages of development, which will be added as the project progresses)

World Building Tools and Mod Support - Greatly expanded creation tools for players to create their own apocalypse for them and their friends, including Steam Workshop support.

I'm writing this review after clocking a good amount of playtime and hope my lengthy review can be of some use to new/current/veteran/potential players. It's always good to start with the good:

THE PROS

This game is the love-child of The Walking Dead (TV show) and Minecraft

Relatively friendly interface and easy-to-play (a contradiction noted in the THE CONS)

Great sandbox experience; allowing players to adopt any playstyle they choose would suit them in the apocalypse: hoarder, scavenger, murderer, good samaritan.. with amazing potential for roleplay experience!

Huge list of craftable weapons whether they be melee or firearms; each with their own advantages.

Huge list of craftable materials which can be used to manipulate a fully functional envrionment (if you see it, you can destroy it)

Good balance between "risk/reward" and "time spent in-game/achievement"

Great modding options for setting-up servers to suit your playstyle

THE CONS - The majority of which are experienced in multiplayer games.

This is Alpha. Be careful if you choose to buy/play this game. It is riddled with bugs/glitches/cheats/hacks.

Complaining or asking for help on official forums in relation to multiplayer games, will be met with: "This is alpha", "Go play single-player", "This is alpha!", "Join a server with your friend", "THIS IS ALPHA!"

Unfriendly interface for joining multiplayer games. I still have no idea what some of those 'filter' options mean/do and there is nothing in-game that explains them; not even on the wiki or offical website.

I was searching for antibiotics to cure my dysentery, and I happened upon a barn. I went in, climbed the ladder to the second floor, and saw a nice hay bale. I picked the hay bale up and the roof suddenly caved in, hit the floor, and then the floor caved in. Dysentery was then the least of my problems, as I lay dead in the shell of the once proud barn.

I have found it quite difficult to write a review for this early-access game.Having some 200 hours beneath my belt on it, I feel that I have tested out a lot of the game.

I will start out by saying that I liked earlier iterations of the game, so this will undoubtedly colour my perception.

First off the basic.It is a survival/horror FPS crafting game.Still in Alpha. (Alpha 10.4 if I remember correctly at the moment of writing).A lone survivor (in single player) or one of the few (in Multi player) living in a world infested with zombies.

The task of the player is to survive.This is achieved by collecting resources, killing zombies and crafting places to stay safe.

What is this? What is that? Woah! A big world.

The game has a wonderful big world. It comes in two iterations. Navezgane, which is a pre-designed world with all biomes and cities. And then a random generated world.In both cases the game world is a representation of an alternative earth, filled with Zombies and empty towns and cities. Ruins, ghost towns and broken cars litter the landscape.Everything from a scrap of paper, to a gun, to glass-beakers can be found in this world. And this is important because...

Resources. Always resources.

A big part of the game is collect materials that will help the player to stay alive. And this is, in short a big task to do, though not impossible. This is very similar to Minecraft in that respect, where the player starts with hitting bushes or trees and the grass. Find a rock and the player is that much closer to make a stone axe.But unlike Minecraft, this game happens in an Earth-like world, where houses, cars and dumping grounds can be found, with materials fitting quite nicely. Thanks to this, the game can present something quite extensive, which is...

Building my tiny house.

The biggest strength of the game is it's crafting system. Minecraft players will feel at home and be marvelled by the variety of crafting possibilities.As stated above, the large variety of materials means that the player can craft everything from the basic stone axe, to a high powered sniper rifle along with housing ranging from dirt-huts to big iron bunkers.

Game mechanics

One of the things that put 7dtd apart from Minecraft is its graphics. I will not dwell to much on this, but it gets the job done. Look pretty good and the latest version of the world works fairly well, with the ground being made up of diamonds, rather than squares, which gives a more organic feeling to it, compared to the blocky Minecraft. (Though, personally, I was quite fond of the square building-blocks the world was made of in earlier iterations)However. On with also learn that this game incorporates physics, which means that the player cannot just build a platform in the air, without some form of support. Personally I have tried to carve out a huge cave under a lake, only to have the cave collapse on me because the roof could no longer support it self. Wood, stone and metal have different values in hit-points, weight and carrying capability. On will enjoy trying to build a large bridge or fortress, making sure that it is sound in structure...

Engine

However... from a technical standpoint, the engine and render that the game runs on is somewhat poorly optimised. This became very appearant with one of the later updates, where the game suddenly starts to lag or gets low fps, which is quite annoying. I am sure that the developers are working on this and it will be fixed in later updates, since this was not a problem before.

Killing and slaughter

Another part of the game lies in killing zombies of different types. This is either done by melee or ranged. And range is done by the use of firearms. It is done quite well, even at this fairly early stage and the developers are working on improving it in later versions.

Would I recommend this game?I will have to say yes.I did have a lot of issues with the game after an update, which limited the players ability to craft certain things until a book was read giving a specific recipe. (This is the forge-recipe we are talking about). Coupled with the unoptimised engine, I felt that the game had been broken, both technically and game-play wise.However. I decided to play again, lowered the graphics a bit, started a random generated world to see whether or not it was impossible to actually achieve what I wanted.With this, the game gave me a pleasant surprise and I am back in it again.

So... for those of you, who wants a time-sink, while building a castle, surviving, hunting or even trapping zombies this is a game for you.For those unsure at this point, wait for a while until Beta arrives. The developers update often and the game is showing good progress and potential.

This was my two cents and as a last remark, I would mention that I really enjoy this game myself.

I've never played a better early access game than this one, It has so much potential and is definitely worth the $25. I would recommend 7 Days to Die to anyone that enjoys open world survival games.

Over the 85 hours I've played this game I have never come accross a bug or glitch, this has surprised me tremendously and continues to impress myself and friends. This game has a lot to it and continues to add more things to occupy the community and multiplayer servers, however, after you make your perfect base, have immense amounts of food and water etc it can become boring and repetitive at times. I do believe that as the game develops many more things will be added and that feeling will be no more.

So my personal thoughts on why I would recommend this game-

Updates: The Devs are frequently updating this game.Bugs: Hardly found and when they are they are quickly removed. Community/Servers: Many friendly people, easy to team up with and assist others.Crafting: Crafting is one of the many things that make this game impressive and enjoyable, the crafting system is unique and has various amounts of recipes.

Would I discourage you to get this game? No not at all. This game personally has definitely earned its place on my favourites list.

However please be aware that is game is early access and you may come accross bugs, errors or other things that may effect your gameplay but if your okay with that go ahead and buy it. You won't regret it.

With about 45 hours played and several late night sessions with buddies, I am really enjoying myself with this game.

As it is still in Alpha, obviously the game isn't perfect. But with that being said this is easily one of the best early access games I have had the oppurtunity to be a part of.

The game has an awesome feel to it, from the eerie noises that come randomly, to the distinct sound each set of zombie makes I have no choice but to appreciate the effort that has already been put into this game. One of my favorite things so far is the unique biomes that 7D2D has implemented.

From the cool, innocent looking spring setting with green grass and red chrysanthumums, to the winter/snow biome with unique zombies for that enviroment. You'll be looking for an airdrop one day that takes you from the desert to the creepy wasteland into the city and the next thing you know savage dogs will be chasing you and you'll be wishing you stayed back at camp!

There's many fun and exciting moments to be had in 7D2D, so if anyone reading this is into zombie survival games I would highly recommend this one.

+ With frequent updates and patches from the Devs, it's hard not to want to support this up and coming gem.

Day 1 Finds house me and a friend live in itDay 2 Zombies attack houseDay 3 ate last of foodDay 4 stravingDay 5 Found cat food went over to other side of the room ate cat food without friendDay 6 Dogs went through roof and mob me. Friend DiedDay 7 zombies made house collapsed I got killed by Dog

Well after about 34.4 hours i would say i could comment on it ( even i Played both modes SP and MP)

1. Graphics aren't the worst but not the best, the game data aren't this big so its a pretty nice concept2.Gameplay: well killing your friend or work togehter, bashing zombies, building your "Castle" or just farming on your potato farm,... this game got everything you won't ( and no it's not LIKE MINECRAFT!, because the graphics are about 4747743837474 better and funnier then minecraft ( GLITCHES EVERYWHERE!))3. always be alerted, zombies are everywhere and kind of In-game-menu-pause doesn't exist ( game's runnign all the time)

4. Crafting is Life: you may find a pistol or two but that's it. you have to craft most of the things you need. thats what makes it interesting

5. all in all :

AT FIRST YOU WILL HATE IT... AFTER 2h you will just hate the zombies spawning and crawling in front of you House ( or even house)

For those of you who love to kill, loot, craft, survive, farm, build and cooperate. Welcome to 7 days to die

If you love creating a la minecraft and love zombies, this is a great concept of a game. Though I've never played it fully in singleplayer, that's probably the best way to go, or on a secure private server well monitored by mods and admins.I spent weeks building far away from noob spawn in a tungsten base. Next I set up a base at hub city/noob spawn covered by over 64 claim blocks. Once a cheater found it would be incredibly hard to break into my base, they just reassigned all claim blocks to themselves, taking ownership of my base. Thus, weeks of effort are easily wiped out in a matter of seconds by individuals with no integrity. :p What's the point in keeping interested in a game so exploitable? Guess I'm forced to stay way out in fringes. Kind of makes the point moot. (PvP server, btw.)So while I recommend it, in concept, your experience may vary. We'll see what comes as it matures.

7 days to die is a very fun hard game with having to find stuff in cities build a shelter or upgrade a house so the zombies wont breack through your wall like the kool aid guy yes they break through the ♥♥♥♥ing wall! with somewhat good ai by them attacking the weakest part of your house and night time being hell this game is AWESOME 10/10

It's games like this where I really feel like the potential is there. And on top of that, it's not being ignored and milked for money and then shortly discontinued. THIS GAME is one of the best early access games I have ever played. I love it. Keep updating the game<3 Impressive.

7 Days to Die is a very good sandbox/zombie game especially when played with friends. I play this most days with my partner (she loves the game and plays very little else). The feel of the game is very good and the night times can be truly intense if you caught out in the open, and even in your base when a full horde comes it can get very intense.

Things I like:

- Building is pretty solid at the moment, especially if you install one of the modded recipe packs

- Defence is a lot of fun and you can be very inventive

- Cities are great fun to raid provided you don’t go in guns blazing

- Graphics are not bad for an indie though with alpha 11 it looks like they will get a major update

- Combat is straight forward and feels about right in my own eyes.

- Crafting system is good again is event better with the modded recipe packs I Have not played on public server's so can’t give a review of them as we play on our own private server

Things that could do with a bit of an update:

- Building variety/biomes feel a little repetitive in random generated maps, a modded prefab pack improves the buildings but the zones still feel a bit cut and paste at times. Alpha 11 will be changing the random gen so this may well change very soon.

- Need to add some prolonged goals other than getting the Sniper Rifle/Magnum, yes this is a sand box but still needs some long term things to work for - skill system may fix this to some extent but they need to add some areas that are a lot harder to loot/get in to until your better skilled/equipped or something.

- Mining/chopping feels a bit slow but this is probably to stop people destroying your base to fast on PvP servers.

Overall for an alpha this is a very good game that I would recommend to people as a must buy, I know there are probably better looking games but the feel of this game just sits well with me. It is so much better with friends than solo this I cannot stress enough.

After over 300 hours on this game ive come to the conclusion that it is quite possibly the best zombie survival/crafting game there is on steam. Whether on single pylayer or multiplayer. Trying to collect resorces to build huge bases and fight off hords of different zombies is amazing. The game is updated enough to keep it interesting and each update is usually quite substantial. So if you dont already own this game what are you doing reading this. GO BUY IT NOW.... Final Score 12/10.

I like 3rd person games because it helps with my immersion, seeing my guy and his cool gear, rather than just floating hands, but that's me. I started playing this already annoyed by the fact..but that quickly changed for the good.

My gaming community had been playing this for a bit while I played several other games and I had been persuaded into buying it.

I logged in and was killed, I tried to do stuff and was killed, fell on someones spikes and was killed..

There was a growing trend..it wasn't that the game was bad, I was playing stupidly.

Since reading a few guides, figuring out crafting and accumulating some guns/ammo/armour I have fallen in love with the game.

if graphics don't matter to you then this game is jewellots of time has been sunk into building my impenetrable bunker deep beneath a lake.

Forge your self alies in the world and scavange for that much needed food, metal and ammo.

You'll quickly note that this game pays for itself after you have picked it up.

However still in early access and as has been showen before that your world and all the hard work could be wiped in the near future. worth picking up and playing still and you'll enjoy every moment of the bad graphics as zombies and dogs chase you down, tear your house appart and rend the flesh from your bones. got a sniper rifle? dont lose it unless you have a mold to create a new one.

You will spend a lot of time competeing over supply drops as a lot of weapon crafting can only be done by dismatling and taking molds of the guns in those boxes, procedually generated nonblocky world is a pleasure to run around in, enimies and AI are some what lacking (they are zombies after all) enviromental hazards and hordes are abound, then everything changes at night...

9/10 due the server wipes, will increase this after the game is fully released